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Google vs. Murdoch

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt, left, and News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch. (AP)
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, left, and News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch. (AP)

For a century and more, newspapers made money hand over fist. Then came the Internet.
Now, newspapers are dying. And news giant Rupert Murdoch is getting mad. He’s ready to fight.
Murdoch's target is the biggest kid on the Internet block: Google. The News Corp chief says Google has essentially been stealing the news from companies like his and giving it away for free. It’s got to stop, he says.
Is Murdoch just blowing smoke?
This hour, On Point: We’ll hear from Jeff Jarvis, Michael Wolf, and Steven Brill — plus Google CEO Eric Schmidt — on Google versus Murdoch.
You can join the conversation. Tell us what you think — here on this page, on Twitter, and on Facebook.Guests:

Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the Interactive Program at the City University of New York School of Journalism. His most recent book is "What Would Google Do?" He writes a column on new media for The Guardian and blogs at Buzzmachine.

Michael Wolff, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and founder of the news aggregator Newser.com. He's author of "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch."

Steven Brill, media entrepreneur, founder of CourtTV, American Lawyer magazine, and most recently co-founder of Journalism Online, a company whose mission is to help news publishers make the transition to a paid-content model on the Internet.

This program aired on November 19, 2009.

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